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history of Iran

...four years, supervised by the Council of Guardians. Suffrage is universal, and the minimum voting age is 16. All important matters are subject to referenda. At the outset of the revolution, the Islamic Republic Party was the ruling political party in Iran, but it subsequently proved to be too volatile, and Khomeini ordered it disbanded in 1987. The Muslim People’s Republic Party, which once...

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Bahonar

After the shah was overthrown in the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Bahonar helped draft a new constitution and served as a founding member of the
Islamic Republican Party (IRP), which supported Khomeini and sought to advance Islamic principles and culture. In March 1981 he was appointed minister of education and carried on the work started by Mohammad Ali Rajaʾi in purging Iranian...

Beheshti

...to power. On February 3, 1979, Khomeini appointed him a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Council, and he soon became the council’s first secretary. He also became leader of the newly founded
Islamic Republican Party (IRP), which was the most important group in the Majles (parliament). Considered the most powerful man in Iran after Khomeini, Beheshti played a leading part in the U.S....

Khamenei

A fiery orator in support of the pro-Khomeini
Islamic Republican Party (IRP) and an ardent advocate of the concept of
velāyat-e faqīh (governance by the religious jurist), Khamenei was injured in 1981 in one of a series of terrorist bombings that devastated the IRP’s upper echelon. Following the death of the secretary-general of the IRP in...

Rajaʾi

Noted for his persistence and determination, Rajaʾi became a leading member of the clergy-dominated
Islamic Republican Party (IRP), a major supporter of the revolution’s leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In August 1980, the Majles (parliament) elected Rajaʾi the Islamic Republic’s second prime minister, a post that had been vacant for some nine months following the resignation...